Thursday, July 31, 2008

Greatest misspelling ever

Now, my Wisconsin roommate definitely had an accent. I would describe her accent as "rounded" or perhaps, "Canadian" (a term with which she violently disagreed). She described the Utah accent as "lazy." I can see what she means.

In Utah-ese:

fill = feelsell = salewill = wheelwell = whale

When you really think about it, doesn't everyone have an accent to someone else? But for the most part, people who speak English can understand other people who speak English. The amusing part comes when the regional oddities of the spoken word creep into the written word, particularly in the spelling.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the greatest misspelling of all time (as found on a blog that I will not post on this forum):

The word is "intill."

As in, "I never noticed you had an accent intill I read what you wrote on your blog."

Ironically, the rest of the blog was fairly well-written which made this misspelling stick out like a sore thumb.

That's weird that someone would type a word as they pronounce it rather than how it's spelled. Unless they didn't know how to spell it. Which begs the question: who the heck doesn't know how to spell until?